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OCTOBER 2021

Business Tips:

TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System)

Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us.

~Traction~

The vision is clear, the right people are in the right seats, data is managed, you’re solving issues, you have defined your way of doing business and everyone is following it. Creating accountability, discipline and execution is where most weakness reveals itself. Traction is the ability to take a visionaries head out of the clouds and place it into clear action.

Many are held back for the fear of creating discomfort, but with each hard step towards systematic success, things become straightforward even with contingencies and the tremendous peace of traction. From no accountability, poor communication, stagnation, chaos you will find just the opposite with traction. Accountability, communication, and organization through a 90-day world from level 10 meetings, to quarterly conversations, to the 1 year goals. We find ourselves on our way to the 3 year and beyond vision.

 

Personal Tips:

~ Fitness~

·         Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. - Romans 12:1

·         Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.– 1 Corinthians 9:26-27

·         Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.– 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

·         So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.– 1 Corinthians 10:31

·         She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.– Proverbs 31:17

·         I can do all this through him who gives me strength.– Philippians 4:13

·         …but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.– Isaiah 40:31

·         For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.– 1 Timothy 4:8

Life Skills:

What if you could develop these tools this year?

·         Critical thinking and creative thinking

·         Problem-solving and decision-making

·         Interpersonal skills and communication

·         Assertiveness, equanimity, and self-control

·         Self-awareness and empathy

·         Resilience and coping with emotions and stress.

 

Carrying Conversations

Let’s just face it:

Nobody likes a person who’s hard to converse with.

In fact, there’s nothing worse than talking to a person who doesn’t know how to carry a healthy discussion. People who know how to start a conversation and carry it are loved by everyone for the sole reason that they’re easy to spend time with. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-initiate-conversation.html

No matter the situation, such smooth talkers never make others feel uncomfortable and can even say the cheekiest of things in the smoothest of manners. This art is vital in winning arguments, negotiations, and conversations. If you want to improve this skill, then check out these conversation hacks to get along with anyone in any sort of discourse. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/8-conversation-hacks-that-make-people-like-you.html

Notable quotes: They are italicized above.

God, how are you so good

                We humans create religion to shield us from the reality of God and His goodness, because we are more comfortable with control than surrender and real relationship with the Divine. The Human paradigm asks the question of “how am I doing”. The goal is to get close to Jesus by doing the things you are supposed to do, work hard enough, try hard enough, and you can make it happen. The problem is that we never arrive, its self focused, spiritual practices are ruined, and its not Jesus’ story.

                Jesus’ paradigm says that you don’t have to get close to God because, in Jesus, you’re already close to God. You are adopted into the family. Safe, secure, accepted and from that place you can work out your wholeness and healing. You don’t come to God by your strengths or successes, you come by your failures and your weakness.

                Full disclosure and discipleship ask 2 questions. “God, how can You be so good?” and “How are you doing loving others?” It begins with grace in us and is completed in grace through us. The entire discipleship journey is learning to live and love like Jesus.

 

Cook, Brandon. Learning to Live and Love Like Jesus: A Discipleship Journey for Groups and Individuals (p. 26). Kindle Edition.

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